• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2000.11a
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• pp.643-646
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• 2000

In this study, we constructed a preview-sensing visual sensor system for weld seam tracking in real time in GMA welding. A sensor part consists of a CCD camera, a band-pass filter, a diode laser system with a cylindrical lens, and a vision board for inter frame process. We used a commercialized robot system which includes a GMA welding machine. To extract the weld seam we used a inter frame process in vision board from that we could remove the noise due to the spatters and fume in the image. Since the image was very reasonable by using the inter frame process, we could use the simplest way to extract the weld seam from the image, such as first differential and central difference method. Also we used a moving average method to the successive position data of weld seam for reducing the data fluctuation. In experiment the developed robot system with visual sensor could be able to track a most popular weld seam, such as a fillet-joint, a V-groove, and a lap-joint of which weld seam include planar and height directional variation.

• Proceedings of the KWS Conference
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.197-201
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• 2009

A lot of work is carried out concerning to acicular ferrite formation in the weld metal of high strength and low-alloy steel. Those results are suggesting that oxides that contain titanium elements provides nucleation site of intragranular ferrite, referred as acicular ferrite. Thus, when intragranular ferrite is expected to form in heat-affected zone, oxide containing titanium element should be formed in the steel. However, normal steel is deoxidized by using aluminum element (Al-killed steel) with little oxygen content. It means almost oxygen is deoxidized with aluminum elements. In the present work, in order to form the acicular ferrite in the heat affected zone, with the same concept in the case of weld metal, the steel deoxidized with titanium element (titanium killed-steel) is prepared and the acicular ferrite formation is observed in detail by using laser-conforcal microscopy technique. The confocal technique makes it possible that the morphological change along the phase transformation from austenite to ferrite is in-situ tracked. Thus, the inclusion that stimulated the ferrite nucleation could be directly selected from the observed images, in the HAZ of the Ti-killed steel. The chemical composition of the selected inclusion is analyzed and the nucleation potential is discussed by changing the nucleation site with boron element. The potency for the ferrite nucleation is summarized and the existence of effective and ineffective manganese sulfide for nucleation is made clear.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.34 no.5
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• pp.678-685
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• 2010

GTAW was carried out to the austenitic 304(STS 304) and 22 APU stainless steels. In this case, difference of the corrosion characteristics of welded zone with STS 304 and 22APU mentioned above was investigated with electrochemical methods. Vickers hardness of weld metal in case of STS 304 (Hv-250) showed a relatively higher value than this of 22 APU(Hv-217). The corrosion current densities of weld metal of 22APU and heat affected zone of STS 304 were observed at the highest value compared to those of other welding zone respectively. This is probably because chromium depletion field due to chromium carbide formed to weld metal of 22APU and to heat affected zone of STS 304 can preferentially easily be corroded with more active anode than other fields. Consequently it is thought that application of the other welding methods like as laser welding or using of the optimum filler metals is necessary to improve the corrosion resistance of welding parts of these steels.

• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• v.27 no.5
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• pp.68-73
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• 2009

The bar horn is designed to increase uniformity of the displacement on the output face through simulation and experiments. Three-dimensional modal analysis is conducted using the finite element method to calculate the vibration mode and displacement on the output face, and the design of experiment (DOE) technique is employed to determine the optimum dimensions of the groove and slot so that the high amplitude uniformity of the bar horn is produced. Displacement of the bar horn was measured using the Laser Doppler Vibrometer (LDV), and the experimental results show good agreements with the predicted results. High uniformity of the bar horn is achieved with the dimensions of the groove and slot determined using the design equations.

• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.39-43
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• 1992

용접은 자동차, 중공업, 조선, 건설, 항공 등 주요 기간산업의 기반기술로서, 금속가공분야 가운데 특히 접합부문에 특별한 의미를 내포하고 있다. 그러나 기반기술로서의 중요성도 불구하고 국 내산업전반에서의 용접은 비교적 낙후된 모습을 보이고 있는 것이 부인할 수 없는 실정이다. 용접이란, 금속가공의 일개공정을 의미하는 용어로 간단히 정의될 수 있지만 용접공정이 원만히, 성공적으로 수행되기 위한 준비되고 연구되어야 할 분야는 매우 복잡하고 다양한 양상을 띄고 있는데 우선, 모재와 용가재를 용해하기 위한 열원으로서는 전기에너지, 화학연소 에너지, LASER, 가속전자, PLASMA가 응용되고 있으며 그 에너지를 유효하게 용접에 이용하기 위한 주변장치로서는 TORCH, JIG, 각종 전자적 SENSOR각 활용되고 있다. 또한, 모재의 재질에 따른 용접재료와 소모성자재의 선택이 부수적으로 따르게 되어 각각의 분야에는 그 특성에 준 하는 학문적 이론이 광범위하게 적용되고 있다. 각종 구조물 제작이 용접의 최종적인 목적이라고 할 때, 제작에 따른 재료와 모재형상, 그리고 각종 기능적 요구에 부합하기 위한 열원, 재료, 용접방법, 검사방법등의 선택은 종합적인 학문적 이론과 실제적 응용이 뒷받침 돼야 함을 전제 로써, 본고에는 용접전반의 문제중, 전기용접기기 및 용접관련 자동화 설비의 현주소 파악과 문 제의 접근측면에서만 간단히 기술하고자 한다.

• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.52-61
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• 1991

In the recent years the computer-numerical controlled cutting process such as a plasma arc cutting and a laser cutting is widely applied to reduce the time and cost expense for generating NC part program of the parts to be cut. In the present study, a CAD system(C-CAD) was developed to generate automatically the NC part programs with CLDAT(Cutter Location Data)for the CNC plasma arc cutting system. The NC part programs are composed of the 2-dimensional drawing of the parts to be cut and the technological data. The shape data of the parts drawn in the Auto-CAD can be also used in the C-CAD, since the data file generated by the C-CAD is compatible with that by the Auto-CAD. In order to check its applicability, the C-CAD and CAM system were applied to cut the parts, and which showed the satisfactory results.

• Proceedings of the KWS Conference
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.100-102
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• 2004

인장강도 600MPa 이상을 가지는 TRIP형 고장력 강판인 60TR-R과 석출경화형 합금인 CHSP60C는 자동차용 소재로 주목을 받고 있다. 또한 레이저 용접은 열 변형이 적고 비드 외관이 미려할 뿐만 아니라 연속 및 고속 용접이 가능하여 생산성 및 정밀성, 안정성이 높아 자동차조립 및 부품 제조공정에 적용되고 있다. (중략)

• Proceedings of the KWS Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.148-150
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• 2006

In this paper, the applicability of an UET(ultrasound excited thermography) for a defect detection of the welded receptacle is described. An UET(ultrasound excited thermography) is a defect-selective and fast imaging tool for damage detection. A high power ultrasound-excited vibration energy with pulse durations of 280ms is injected into the outer surface of the welded receptacle made of Al material. An ultrasound vibration energy sent into the welded receptacle propagate inside the sample until they are converted into the heat in the vicinity of the defect. The injection of the ultrasound excited vibration energy results in heat generation so that the defect is turned into a local thermal wave transmitter. Its local heat emission is monitored by the thermal infrared camera. And they are processed by the image recording system. Measurement was performed on aluminum receptacle welded by using Nd:YAG laser. The observed thermal image revealed two area of defects along the welded seam.

• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.73-79
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• 1993

The phenomenon of metal transfer has been investigated for different transfer modes using a digital high speed motion analyzer and an arc shadow-graphing system based on a laser source and related optical system. It was observed that the pinch instability phenomenon did not occur for the globular transfer mode, since the liquid globule was then spherical rateher than a cylindrical liquid bar. On increasing the ratio of carbon dioxide to argon, the transition current from globular to spray transfer generally increased, but it is interesting that the transition was observed to occur at the lowest current in a 5% CO$_{2}$-95% argon gas mixture. For pure carbon dioxide and helium shielding gases, the drop frequency increased slowly with increasing current. At high currents or an argon based shielding gas, the length of liquid bar decreased as the carbon dioxide content increased. The acceleration of a droplet within the arc was determined using the gas drag force theory and was found to be greater than the experimental results.

• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.1-10
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• 1994

노즐에서 분사되는 제트의 거동에 대해 전반적으로 고찰해보고, 실제 후판의 레이저 절단성 실험 을 통해 노즐의 영향 및 혼합가스의 절단면 질 향상효과 등을 살펴보았다. 간략히 요약하면 다음 과 같다. 아음속제트는 노즐압력을 증가함에 따라 절단압력도 증가하지만 노즐과 재료사이의 거 리를 가능한 작게 유지하여야 하는 제약이 있다. 따라서 사용중에 손상이 가기 쉽다. 이를 해결하 고자 초음속제트의 사용이 연구되고 있지만 shock의 형성으로 인해 노즐압과 절단압은 매우 비선 형적인 관계를 갖는다. 따라서 (i)고압에서도 MSD가 형성되지 않고 주기적인 압력 재상승이 나 타나도록 하거나, (ii)Laval노즐을 이용해 shock구조가 형성되지 않고 큰 절단거리를 얻도록 하는 방법이 제시되고 있다. 초음속노즐의 후판 절단 적용 가능성을 분석해 본 결과 유동 박리 현상으 로 인해 후판보다는 박판의 향상을 위해서는 적절한 조성의 혼합가스를 사용하는 것이 아주 효과 적이었으며, 보조 가수 제트를 채용해 slag제거를 효율적으로 수행 할 수 있음을 확인하였다.